{"id":5038,"date":"2020-01-18T07:48:59","date_gmt":"2020-01-17T21:48:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/neoporcupine.mine.nu\/blog\/?p=5038"},"modified":"2020-01-18T07:48:59","modified_gmt":"2020-01-17T21:48:59","slug":"murdochs-flagship-australian-newspaper-pushes-climate-denial-as-devastating-bushfires-rage-media-matters-for-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/neoporcupine.net\/blog\/index.php\/2020\/01\/18\/murdochs-flagship-australian-newspaper-pushes-climate-denial-as-devastating-bushfires-rage-media-matters-for-america\/","title":{"rendered":"Murdoch&#8217;s flagship Australian newspaper pushes climate denial as devastating bushfires rage | Media Matters for America"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Bushfires in Australia, ongoing since September, have killed at least 28 people to date and burned an estimated 15.6 million acres of bush, forest, and parks across the country. Experts say the fires are likely to continue for months, and it is estimated that as many as 1 billion animals may perish through the season. The link between climate change and the historic severity of the crisis is \u201cscientifically undisputable.\u201d Among other factors, the country\u2019s warmer climate causes droughts that produce natural fuel for fires, making bushfires \u201clarger and more frequent.\u201d Rupert Murdoch\u2019s homeland media empire has been subjected to increasing criticism (including from his own son) for pushing climate denialism, downplaying the severity of the crisis, and hyping exaggerated stories about the role of arson in the fires. A Media Matters conducted a noncomprehensive review of digital front page of News Corp.\u2019s flagship national paper, The Australian, using the Internet Archive Wayback Machine. Not every date was archived, but snapshots of those that were available reveal the tone of the coverage overall. While the paper\u2019s website, which has a monthly reach of 2 million readers, did someti<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mediamatters.org\/news-corp\/murdochs-flagship-australian-newspaper-pushes-climate-denial-devastating-bushfires-rage\">Murdoch&#8217;s flagship Australian newspaper pushes climate denial as devastating bushfires rage | Media Matters for America<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re consuming Murdoch media then you&#8217;re being disinformed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bushfires in Australia, ongoing since September, have killed at least 28 people to date and burned an estimated 15.6 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[424,439,4,447],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5038","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-climate","category-corruption","category-politics","category-propaganda"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/neoporcupine.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5038","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/neoporcupine.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/neoporcupine.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/neoporcupine.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/neoporcupine.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5038"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/neoporcupine.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5038\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5039,"href":"http:\/\/neoporcupine.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5038\/revisions\/5039"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/neoporcupine.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/neoporcupine.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/neoporcupine.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}